New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATE EMERGENCY AND RESCUE MANAGEMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 20A

20A State Emergency Recovery Controller

(1) The Minister may appoint a State Emergency Recovery Controller and a Deputy State Emergency Recovery Controller.

(2) The person appointed as the State Emergency Recovery Controller must be a senior executive officer and the person appointed as the Deputy State Emergency Recovery Controller must be a senior executive officer or a senior officer.

(3) The persons so appointed must be persons who are, in the opinion of the Minister, experienced in emergency management.

(4) During the absence or a vacancy in the office of the State Emergency Recovery Controller, the Deputy State Emergency Recovery Controller has all of the functions of the State Emergency Recovery Controller.

(5) Schedule 1 contains provisions with respect to the State Emergency Recovery Controller and the Deputy State Emergency Recovery Controller.

(6) In this section:
"senior executive officer" has the same meaning as in the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002 .
"senior officer" means a person employed in a position in the Public Service for which the rate of salary or wages payable to the person exceed the maximum rate payable for Grade 12, Administrative and Clerical Division, of the Public Service.